Viruses, Turing Machines, iPhones, and Hyperobjectshttps://overcast.fm/+UtNTIWJdc
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I love this notion of an extended phenotype. The iPhone’s extended phenotype includes the physical object, and the factory processes that produced it, and the server farms it is networked to, that do most of the computation... very Deleuzean.
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The extended phenotype of a spider includes the web. The extended phenotype of a virus includes the host.
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Replying to @gordonbrander
It's dawning on me that I should learn bio-inspired thinking this summer (in particular, relearning evo and all that). Do you have any fun ways of doing that? Been meaning to read Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned after your rec.
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Ugh it’s so good! Here’s a snap of my Shelf of Complexity. Favorites: Evolutionary Design By Computers, Computational Design Thinking, Thinking in Systems, Complexity, A Guided Tour, Origins of Wealth.pic.twitter.com/SVfrPhjeSs
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Replying to @gordonbrander @maxkriegers
Oh and Evolution in Four Dimensions! How could I forget?
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Evo design by computers makes me wonder if any recent courses have made modeling software as an environment for exercises. I want an assignment that makes me set up initial conditions for something like this to hatchpic.twitter.com/pEIJMwBpC7
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Replying to @maxkriegers @gordonbrander
Netlogo but for zoology: https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
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